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Now that I am back in Ushuaia it has been a good time to look through and back up my photos. I have hundreds of penguin shots from a distance, up close, in groups or alone. However one thing that I seemed to have shot a lot of is the seemingly headless penguins. These photos … Continue reading →

To kill time on the Antarctic cruise with G Adventures, there were a range of lectures and stories by the expedition staff. Most of the time these were about the history of Antarctica – tales of the historic expeditions of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton and Mawson where it was hard to believe exactly what these explorers … Continue reading →

Worth every penny! The sea kayaking option to add-on to my G Adventures Antarctica cruise wasn’t cheap, but I enjoyed my last kayaking holiday in Greece and decided it would be worth paying the extra to have a slightly different view of Antarctica, along with a bit of exercise on the trip. With expectations of … Continue reading →

18 March – 21 March Now that I am back on land in Ushuaia I have some time to post all of the Antarctic blogs and a few of my favourite pictures, but thought I would start with this – the return journey. ‘If not the worst Drake crossing, this has certainly been the longest!’ … Continue reading →

Are you here for the wildlife or the ice? This was a common question in the early days of my Antarctic cruise. And the responses were a fairly even split of those who were here to see the wildlife, and those who were on board to see the ice. I thought I was here to … Continue reading →

In my final week of work, my colleague Michaela said to write a blog on the difference between seals and sealions. Luckily, one of the first lectures on board the Antarctic cruise was this, and then, during the trip, I was lucky enough to see five species of seal in the Antarctic. True Seals Essentially … Continue reading →

If there was one thing that we were guaranteed to see on every landing during our Antarctic cruise it was penguins. With the different types and behaviours, it was something I didn’t get bored with. Looking through the hundreds of penguin pictures I took at every opportunity, these are some of my favourite penguin characteristics. … Continue reading →

18 March 2012 Our final day in Antarctica and we were woken up at 5.30 am to see us come into Deception Island and sail into the crater of a volcano. It was pretty stunning. Our first landing of the morning was at 7.30, before breakfast. Once we arrived at Whaler’s Bay we say all … Continue reading →

18 March 2012 After breakfast at about 10.30 we were ready for our second landing of the day, and final one of the cruise. We were going to Telefon Bay in Deception – the site of some more volcanic craters (or calderas). The landscape was still like a sketch with the snow mixing with the … Continue reading →

11 March 2012 This morning we woke up to promising news. Despite most of the passengers feeling that the cruise was rough and rocky, the journey was going well and we were on track to reach the outlying Antarctic South Shetland Islands just after lunch – and with any luck, we would manage a bonus … Continue reading →